Glossary of string theory information

This page is a glossary of terms in string theory, including related areas such as supergravity, supersymmetry, and high energy physics. Contents:  Conventions...

In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called...

IIA string theory Type IIB string theory Heterotic string N=2 superstring M-theory Matrix theory Introduction to M-theory F-theory String field theory Matrix...

Bosonic string theory is the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s and named after Satyendra Nath Bose. It is so called because...

In string theory, a heterotic string is a closed string (or loop) which is a hybrid ('heterotic') of a superstring and a bosonic string. There are two...

type II string theory is a unified term that includes both type IIA strings and type IIB strings theories. Type II string theory accounts for two of the five...

String field theory (SFT) is a formalism in string theory in which the dynamics of relativistic strings is reformulated in the language of quantum field...

In theoretical physics, topological string theory is a version of string theory. Topological string theory appeared in papers by theoretical physicists...

The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers...

'Superstring theory' is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theory because unlike bosonic string theory, it is the version of string theory that accounts...

In string theory, the string theory landscape (or landscape of vacua) is the collection of possible false vacua, together comprising a collective "landscape"...

In theoretical physics, type I string theory is one of five consistent supersymmetric string theories in ten dimensions. It is the only one whose strings...

physics, matrix string theory is a set of equations that describe superstring theory in a non-perturbative framework. Type IIA string theory can be shown...

String cosmology is a relatively new field that tries to apply equations of string theory to solve the questions of early cosmology. A related area of...

Twistor string theory is an equivalence between N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory and the perturbative topological B model string theory in twistor...

dictionary. In string theory and related theories (such as supergravity theories), a brane is a physical object that generalizes the notion of a zero-dimensional...

In string theory, a worldsheet is a two-dimensional manifold which describes the embedding of a string in spacetime. The term was coined by Leonard Susskind...

This is a list of graph theory topics, by Wikipedia page. See glossary of graph theory terms for basic terminology Amalgamation Bipartite graph Complete...

group theory concerns an algebraic structure called group. Outline of algebra Glossary of field theory Glossary of group theory Glossary of linear algebra...